Canada as a Semiotic Society: Harold Innis,Roberta Kevelson,and the Bias of Legal Communications |
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| Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">William?PencakEmail author |
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| Institution: | (1) Professor of History, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA |
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| Abstract: | The great Canadian economist/philospher Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan’s teacher, was also especially interested in the way
preserving the common law and multiple interpretive legal perspectives were essential to the preservation of human freedom.
He greatly feared the rise of administratively made law as detrimental to the lively political life of free communities. Much
of his work on legal theory, in which he urges Canadians to tenaciously protect their complicated legal system, anticipates
the legal semiotic of Roberta Kevelson, although they had no knowledge of each other’s work and Innis may only have known
of Charles Peirce indirectly.
Additional support was provided by the National Science Foundation |
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